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Letter from Michael Maxwell Shaw dated 7 July 1869 to William Boyer about the 'Castra' settlement - "I think that a society of gentlemen at Castra would do much to establish a sound tone of feeling and manners through the island". He also describes
his own home 'Deans Point' La Trobe, formerly a coal mine and good dairy land.

Various photographs of Hobart and Hobart environs taken between 1870 and 1882. Photographed by H. H. Baily, and Anson Bros.

Photographs of Sandy Bay taken c1870-1882 by Winter photographer.

Letter from Rachel Ann Mackie, wife of Frederick Mackie to Anna Maria Cotton, dated 22 December 1870 regarding health and family

List of Tasmanian fish by M. Allport (n.d. c1870-1876)
Includes also "List of Tasmanian fish sent to Dr. Gunther, British Museum, per ship "Windward", March, 1874" ; List of Tasmanian
saltwater fish sent to the Royal Museum of National History, Brussels by Mr. Morton Allport, March, 1874" ;"Dr. Gunther's list 2nd
collection", and letters :-British Museum 12 Oct., 1872 ("thank you and Mrs. Meredith for ... 6 plates of Tasmanian fishes. I return them as requested ..." ; 2 May, 1875, report on fish received - a salmo trutta taken in Derwent estuary, having "in its stomach eight anchovies, a diet which will account for the rapid growth of salmonoids in your waters but which will not improve the flavour of their flesh", surprised that Tasmanian anchovies not yet turned to same use as in Europe; whip-tails - macronurus Novae Zelandiae : 8 Apr., 1876 : further report on collection sent - included new genus (No. 18 in list: "No local name. See 40 in book and drawing by Mrs. Allport.

H.H. Baily cabinet photo

Photographs of Mt Wellington, Huon Road, Fern Tree Bower, Waterworks. Taken c1870-1882 by photographers Anson Bros., Baily and Albert Sargeant Photographers

Copy of The Tasmanian Times, dated 8 July 1870

Various photographs of Hobart and Hobart environs taken by prominent Tasmanian photographers including , Baily, Anson Bros., Winter and Cawston

Helen Grueber (Mrs. E.0. Cotton) - poetry ND [ 1870s-1880s]. Poetry (ms in school exercise book) and cuttings of printed poems. Enclosed small tintype photo of Helen Cotton (c 1890-1900)

Apprentice Indenture for Charles Goodfellow, dated 20 Sept. 1870. Indenture of apprenticeship of Charles Goodfellow, son of Robert Goodfellow of Hyler, Co. Cornwall (U.K.), to William Henry Lean of Falmouth, master shipwright, to serve for seven years from 3 November 1863 (sic) Endorsed with certificate of satisfactory completion.

Miscellaneous documents , shipping consignments and records relating to various vessels owned by McGregor

W.L. Dobson to Francis Cotton dated 1871: John Meredith's Cambria estate not for lease - trustees bound to sell

Offer from James Stormont dated 3 April 1871 to rent the property "Mount Morriston" : offer to rent at £210

Letters to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph J. Neave dated 1871 and 1877

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from unidentified person, signature erased, from 309 Cotley St., dated 25 Mach 1871
Spiritual

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings relating to Anglo-Indian officiers settling in Tasmania and Colonel Crawford's 'Castra' settlement

Collection consists of miscellaneous business papers and other correspondence relating to shipping, banking, real estate and shares of Alexander McGregor and McGregor, Piesse & Co. Most of these papers relate to the dissolution of the partnership and Alexander McGregor's independent business ventures, the execution of estates of which he was trustee and the execution of his estate after his death

Miscellaneous papers 1871 -1886 including welcome to Rev. J. Graham program 1871; notes on making lenses and for finding the focal distance and power of a telescope (ND); receipt for £342.15.0. paid for discharge of mortgage on Arthur Street residence (20 December 1886); notes for Sara's letter to her aunt Mary (ND); news cutting about debts of E.T. Walker stationer and manager of business of Henry Stevens (d. 1897, widow d. 1906) (ND c1906-7).

Letter received from James Backhouse jnr.dated 1871 regarding Family, Friends, Norway and J. Crosfield's visit, Father-in-law Isaac Robson visiting America, Hickites (followers of Elias Hicks) and other errors, modes of speech and dress "practically thrown overboard", uncle by marriage Benjamin Seebohn died.

Correspondence from solicitors Allport & Roberts regarding the Ponsonby Vale lease dated 1871-1872. Lease of Ponsonby Vale to Mr and Miss Tabart for 7 years at £230 pa. (May 1871 ); distraint costly (31 May 1872); transfer of lease to Wilson and Burbury; repairs to Stone House; bank receipt for £102 .0.11 paid by Wilson and Burbury.

Material relating to the whaling barque "Derwent Hunter" 1871 - 1881 including the will of John Bull, chief mate of the whaling barque "Derwent Hunter", Charles Bayley owner appointed executor (1871); papers relating to claim from NSW Govt. for refund of expenses paid on behalf of John Doherty, a seaman who was injured while serving on the "Derwent Hunter" and left ashore on Lord Howe Island to recuperate, including extract from log book (Capt. Richard Sparkes) and letter from Richard R. Armstrong, Commander RN. retired, Magistrate Lord Howe Island (1879¬ 81).

Miscellaneous papers of William Knibb Morris

Miscellaneous documents relating to Helen Grueber - Confirmation card: St. John Baptist Church 2 June 1871 by C. H. Tasmania
[Bishop Charles Henry Bromby], prepared by Rev. H.B. Bromby; pink envelope containing a photo of girl's head (tiny tin type} and locks of hair; list of presents (ms) including toilet set, large centre cruet and five corner cruets, toast rack, wool antimacassar; news cutting notice of death of Elizabeth Grueber, wife of Stephen Henry Grueber sen. at her son's residence, Ormley, on 28 April [1891 ];
temperance notes (ms).

Letters from sons and daughters: Edward Octavius Cotton 1872, 1875 Kelvedon: Earlham sheep (1872); Hobart: death of Sarah, memorial card (12 March 1875)

Includes record of cases, apprenticeship indentures, mortgages, leases and land titles

Press articles relating to agriculture.

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Abraham Davy; Narellan N.S.W. dated 17 October 1872

Collection consists of newspaper articles, letters and papers of William Ebenezer Shoobridge relating to agriculture, economics, socialism and politics.

Typed copies of articles, including American Thistle (23 March 1872), hop-picking conditions - the growers' case (March 1918).

Articles on Federation, Labour Party and miscellaneous topics.

Letters from William Knibb Morris to his brother Thomas John Morris dated 6 September 1872-June 1877. Fingal: store business, cost of transport and import of goods, elections, parents at Mangana, Willie [William James Morris, son of James] helping, Annie Ashton [sister] in hospital at Melbourne - skin graft on leg, Collis schoolmaster on Islands [ie Furneaux Islands], family: wife Sarah, son Percy, baby Thomas (April 1872), daughter Celia Sarah born 27 March 1876 (April, May 1976), brother James and his family, visit of Anthony Trollope to Hobart - "they make quite a lion of him" (January 1872), gold mining, gold at Mangana (1872), Wesleyan chapel built (1872), telegraph across Australia from Adelaide to Darwin, talk of railway (September 1872), bought large building in centre of town formerly Highland Inn (February [1873]), Governor's visit, coal mines - Mt. Nicholas, Seymour, transit of Venus (November 1874), telegraph coming - learning alphabet in preparation (November 1874, August-October 1875, April 1876), death of father Thomas Morris (December 1874), description of district and journeys, Clifford the photographer visited Fingal - William had views taken - borrowed C's camera to take views of parents' house Mangana (October 1875), measles (September-November 1875), "little single needle instrument" [?electromagnetic telegraph], description of St. Helens (April 1876), death of mother (20/12/1876) and Mary Marshall [daughter of James Morris] (December 1876), scientific experiments, papyrograph [copying] process (1876-77), business quiet - thinking of looking for another occupation (February 1877), business closed, creditors treated him kindly except P.O. Fysh (April 1877).

Applications under various Acts dated 1872-1894 arranged in alphabetical order of applicant.

1. Simon Arnett & William Mason 1894, application under Real Property Act and caveat of Robert Whiteway.
2. Michael Francis Daly & Edward Maher 1884, application under Real Property Act.
3. Thomas Fitzgerald 1887, application for a certification of title.
4. P.O. Fysh & William Ferguson 1890, application for certificate of title.
5. Bridget Harrington 1892, application as proprietor under the Real Property Act.
6. Ann Hobden 1878, application for certificate of title: land at Cambridge.
7. Abraham Houlton Kennedy 1883, application for certificate of title.
8. James Thomas Roberts & Edward Maher 1880, application for certificate of title.
9. Frederick Benjamin Williams 1898, application for land.
10. Charles Peter Woods to Ellen Hefferan 1886, application to be registered proprietor of a mortgage.

Farm accounts dated 1872 to December1383. Accounts including: wages for reaping, building, fencing, ploughing etc., sales of wheat, purchases of flour, tobacco, sugar, tea etc. Also stock account and record of foaling (Diamond, Gypsy, Blossom) 1878-83. The accounts are mainly those of George Marshall but the later ones were kept by D. Marshall, including accounts of the estate of the late G. Marshall. Added at front: 'Indian sauce from Horace R. Spearman, 13 Feb. 1896' (recipe).

Alphabetical file of Bankruptcy cases for the years 1872 to 1894. Miscellaneous papers, including correspondence, notices of creditors' meeting, claims, etc. Arranged in order of the name of client.

1. Michael Henry Boutcher of Sheffield, carpenter (J. Powell solr.) 1894
2. George Boyes of Hobart, gent 1874
3. William Henry Cheverton, timber merchant 1880
4. William James Cleary, builder, Hobart 1884
5. Henry Coulson 1877
6. Robert Davey, storekeeper, Weldborough 1880
7. Thomas Dillon, carpenter, Hobart 1880
8. Henry Butler Downie & William Robert Woodgate of Launceston & Evandale 1874
9. Rose Alice Eastwood, licensed victualler, Black Prince, Elizabeth St. Hobart 1880
10. Charles Edmunds, house painter, Hobart 1881
11. Richard James Edwards, tobacconist, Hobart 1872
12. Hubert Beard Evans, ship owner & timber merchant, Hobart 1880
13. Theodore Foster, tanner & fellmonger 1880-81
14. John Gill, farmer, Sorell 1876
15. Herbert Wade Gower, picture frame maker, Hobart 1883-85
16. Henry Harvey, licensed victualler, Green Ponds 1872-73
17. Charles Horton, druggist, formerly of Oatlands 1881
18. Richard Hill 1879
19. Andrew Luckman 1882
20. John O'Boyle 1881
21. Frederick Augustus Gow Packer 1879
22. John Pennyston 1894
23. William Parkins 1878
24. William Henry Rowe 1879
25. Windle Hill St. Hill 1890
26. Sydney Edward Underwood 1880-81
27. R.H. Wilmore 1878-79

Bank book of Henry Martin (1877), bill (1872), rough note.

Articles or letters to the press on political subjects, including local self government (1872), elections and the franchise, state politics, farmers' outlook (1912), labour, women in politics (1915), Labour Party, power of the state (1918), prime minister or president (1921), government (1935).

Log book of the schooner 'Lavinia' on a voyage from Sydney to the Solomon Islands, August 1872 to July 1873

Papers relating to probate, claims against estates of deceased, cases and opinions concerning the execution of wills and also applications for administration of intestate estates. Papers in alphabetical order.

1. Rose Bennett: intestate 1879
2. Joseph Bridge: intestate 1875
3. Thomas Brown 1888-89, of Oatlands (d. 13 March 1887), inc. correspondence with daughter M.A. Harding, trusts for daughters' families etc.
4. William Birchall 1894, late of Launceston (inc. will of Henry Marshall of Blind Burn, Glamorgan)
5. Michael John Clarke, builder, of Hobart 1889
6. Richard James Edwards of Hobart, tobacconist 1892
7. Cornelius Finn of Ridgeway 1876
8. Mary Fitzpatrick of Hobart, widow 1877
9. Richard Gerald Fitzsimmons of Richmond, gent 1886
10. John Richard Garth of Sandy Bay, farmer 1878
11. Martin Goram of Hobart 1899
12. George Grey otherwise George Bale: intestate 1884
13. Fortune Guillois of Hobart, mattress maker 1885-86
14. Ellen Mary Gurling 1898
15. Thomas Harrison: intestate 1878
16. Abraham Hawkesford of Hobart, mariner 1883-85
17. Michael Hayes of Hobart, licensed victualler 1886
18. Ellen Hefferan 1886
19. Patrick Hefferan of Hobart, dairyman 1877
20. Anne, wife of Edward Heslop of Launceston, grocer 1894
21. Patrick Hewitt 1886, Catholic priest of New Town N.S.W. died in Hobart, Rev. Philip Ryan Hennebry executor.
22. Charles Henry Hodges of Oatlands 1887
23. Thomas George Holdsworth of Oatlands, farmer 1887
24. Richard Howard of Hobart, licensed victualler 1886
25. Adam Howell of Launceston, shoemaker 1883
26. James Hurst of Hobart, coal & wood merchant 1877
27. Edward Carroll Marum, Catholic priest of Brighton 1881, including Roberts Stewart catalogue of books of estate of Archdeacon E.C. Marum.
28. John Ryan of Oatlands, storekeeper (d. 1878) 1877-91 and Ellen Ryan (d. 1882), including particulars of sale of property and abstract of title of Rev. John Feehan and Andrew Morrison to land at Oatlands bequeathed by Mrs Ellen Ryan.
29. Ebenezer Sims: intestate 1885
30. William Smith: intestate 1876, of Auckland, New Zealand, formerly of Hobart, carpenter
31. Ellen Whitford, factory manageress of Hobart 1905, including inventory of goods

Parliamentary Papers together with correspondence (manuscript copies) and news cuttings. Front of volume consists of Statistical Returns of Tasmania 1873.

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Frederick Mackie, Mount Barker, South Australia, dated 7 October 1873.
Spiritual, Tilney Cotton beginning to prosper, Lucy Coleman

Copies of letters and articles from Mercury by 'Marshman' and Calder on Hobart cemeteries, Hobart suburbs and Botanical Gardens. Handwritten copy in 'reporters' notebook.

Two letters dated 1873 relating to a testimonial for Dean Cox - one from Charles Du Cann from Government House

Letter to James Backhouse Cotton from Joseph Crosfield, London, dated 12 August 1873.

Bundle of cheques drawn by McGregor & Piesse for the period 1874-1887